This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

Reproductive physiologist Cara Wells says today up to 20% of transferred embryos have virtually zero chance of making a pregnancy and explains how video, AI and better selection can turn those losses ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

A brief medical note in the U.S. CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published 45 years ago would have profound impacts ...

Daniel Cressy’s groundbreaking gene therapy treatment is opening new possibilities for patients living with the inherited ...

In the development of diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, Ebola and dengue, numerous chemical reactions take place ...

When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

Mosses have long been seen as the plant kingdom’s loners, surviving without the fungal partners that help most land plants ...